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It is a great gulf fixed between you and them,--not so much that elementary gulf, but that gulf which manners, opinions, and laws have radicated in the very nature of the people.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgIt is a great gulf fixed between you and them,--not so much that elementary gulf, but that gulf which manners, opinions, and laws have radicated in the very nature of the people.
Burke highlights the deep cultural and social divides that exist between different peoples.
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